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Mark Truscott’s first book, Said Like Reeds or Things, was published in 2004 by Coach House Books. He is at work on his second, tentatively entitled Nature, of which the poems appearing here are part. He curates the Test Reading Series in Toronto. He lives with his wife, Lisa Heggum, and son, Sam.

 From “Nature”

on and on toward and on

•

so

forth

four

•

•

what if

the words

were to

be set

off kilter

•

From “Essays on Nature”

in the

                interstice

                that this

                can’t enter

                a deictic

                room tone

                hums

                •

these words

                stay these

                solid lines